We are all layabouts now
Jonathan Rée: Kojève v. Hegel, 5 February 2026
Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography
by Boris Groys.
Verso, 176 pp., £16.99, November 2025,978 1 80429 682 0 Show More
by Boris Groys.
Verso, 176 pp., £16.99, November 2025,
The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève
by Marco Filoni, translated by David Broder.
Northwestern, 272 pp., £35, July 2025,978 0 8101 4878 9 Show More
by Marco Filoni, translated by David Broder.
Northwestern, 272 pp., £35, July 2025,
“... of Kojève’s writings), but the idea of Kojève as an ‘immigrant’ finds ample support in Marco Filoni’s Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève, which is well-documented, though heavily reliant on Kojève’s colourful recollections; and, as Kojève would have wished, it tells a captivating story. Kojève was born into a wealthy Russian family ... ”
